Frank Abagnale Quotes

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks.

I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.

I keep a composition book with me at all times to write rhymes, to write down ideas, write down my thoughts, you know just so I don't forget any ideas.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

Most of our writers tend to be recorders.

I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

I've never kept a record of anything.

I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission.

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

I always have pen and paper with me.

Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

I've always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I get.

I carry around a black leather Moleskine journal all the time. And I always write ideas down, especially when I'm on set and working with actors like Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis and learning from them.

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.